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The next business breakfast on Wednesday 22nd February will feature the Heads Up project’s year raising the profile of mental health issues across the borough. To make things interesting we’ll be finding out about attitudes to mental health through a quiz on stigma. Its a very revealing exercise and I’m sure will be rewarding.

The breakfast starts at 8am and is held at JTs Cafe in the Hesters Way Community Resource Centre. Jim offers a full English Brekky for a fiver and plenty of other healthy options. Come and check out his new menu.

The next business breakfast on Wednesday 22nd February will feature the Heads Up project’s year raising the profile of mental health issues across the borough. To make things interesting we’ll be finding out about attitudes to mental health through a quiz on stigma. It’s a very revealing exercise and I’m sure will be rewarding.

The breakfast starts at 8am and is held at JTs Café in the Hesters Way Community Resource Centre. Jim offers a full English brekky for a fiver and plenty of other healthy options at very competitive prices.

Many of the photos and historical information we have used over the years in our descriptions of the local area, our funding applications and on this website have been provided by the tireless contributors to the History of Hesters Way

These five volumes provide a fantastic insight into the development and change in the west of Cheltenham and are a small price to pay for the plethora of intriguing stories, rare photographs, maps and documents offered inside.

Our heartfelt thanks go out to Chris Green, former resident and employee of Hesters Way Neighbourhood Project for all the hard work that went into editing them.

Application forms along with further details about the Partnership are available by following the links below. The closing date for applications is Thursday 16th February, with interviews due to take place on Monday 27th February.

We are very pleased to announce that the long delayed KGV public art project is due to recommence! Workshops with artist Rob Olins are planned at Rowanfield Junior School for school pupils and at Hesters Way Library for the general public. The library workshop will take place during opening hours between 10am and 1pm on Saturday 11th February so if you have an artistic side or simply want to suggest some ideas feel free to drop in.

To provide improved access for all park users the council’s green space team would like to invite the local community to a consultation to discuss alterations to the gateways.

As part of this consultation we would like to ensure that all entrances provide access to all users, therefore by providing information on sizes of wheelchairs, pushchairs and mobility scooters it will enable people to access the park and enjoy the park’s environment.

If you’d like to stay healthy and take in some of the public art attractions that West Cheltenham has to offer then why not have a go at the West Cheltenham Public Art Trail. The route measures 5km and takes about 1 hour to walk passing by five pieces of public art on the way. We have included a map below.

Starting at the Mosaic Mural made by 5 community groups and artist David Bowers in 2006 on the wall of the Hesters Way Community Centre on Princess Elizabeth Way. The route passes through the shopping centre at Edinburgh Place to the Hesters Way Library. In the library lobby you can find the Story Chair, another collaboration between Natasha Houseago and members of the local community. Continue reading “West Cheltenham Public Art Trail”

The two quarterly NCGs will take place on Thursday (25th Jan ) this week at Springbank Community Centre at 10:30am and St Barnabas Church Hall at 2pm. For more details, agendas see the meetings page . All welcome.

The next West Cheltenham Business Breakfast will be on Wednesday 15th January and will feature a presentation by Caroline Eardley of Active Impact. We’ll be given an insight into the work of the charity which provides opportunities for disabled and non-disabled young people together.

The groups is free to attend but if you’d like one of Jim’s hearty breakfasts it’ll cost you £5….the coffee and cakes are pretty good too.

We have selected interesting articles and videos from a variety of community development projests from all over the world from the online magazine builder Flipboard. They include stories from Belfast about community grants, from an aboriginal community in Australia regarding a resident led infrastructure project, case studies from the British Institute of Human Rights and from two cities in USA plus a TED talk from Cormack Russell about Asset based community development.

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Hesters Way Partnership is a multi-agency partnership based in West Cheltenham, aiming to promote community led sustainable change. We are a not for profit charity managed by a Board of Directors and comprising partner organisations and residents from the local area.